SPEECH AT A MEETING OFThE PETROGRAD SOVIET EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ON APRIL 4 (17), 1917 ON THE QUESTION OF THE PASSAGE ACROSS GERMANY

Published:First published in 1925 in the book:Petrogradsky Sovet rabochikh i soldatskikh deputatov.Protokoly(The Petrograd Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies. Minutes), State Publishing House.

      Printed from the text in the book.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1971,

      Moscow,Volume 36,

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Inorder to put an end to the lies being spread by the
bourgeois press, it is essential to adopt the resolution proposed by
Comrade Zinoviev. He proposes a statement that émigrés
of all trends should be allowed through. We undertook no
obligations at all. We only promised that on our return we
would appeal to the workers to help the exchange. If you
recognise that exchange is right, you will thereby refute all
the lies. Otherwise you will give food for insinuation and
slander....